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Sent out this morning as part of this week's "locking/urgent" pull request is a performance regression fix ahead of today's Linux 6.16-rc5 release. This latest performance regression in the Linux kernel is around the new Futex code merged this cycle with a big performance hit being observed in scheduler benchmarks...

Nearly one year after the merge request was first opened, back-ported now to the X.Org Server 21.1 stable branch are a number of GLAMOR 2D acceleration fixes around OpenGL ES 2.x as well as supporting OpenGL ES 3.x shaders for this generic 2D acceleration over OpenGL for the xorg-server and XWayland...

Intel software engineers continue ironing out their Linux support for Bartlett Lake...

Linux 6.16 Performance Regression Tracked Down In New Futex Code  Phoronix

(Part 1) Technical challenges of applying Linux to industrial equipment and Toshiba's longstanding efforts  global.toshiba

Sent out today by longtime Freedreno/MSM open-source Qualcomm GPU driver developer Robin Clark are the main set of MSM kernel graphics/display driver updates targeting the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window. There are several exciting feature additions coming to this next kernel version for those relying on Qualcomm graphics capabilities...

Big Improvements For Qualcomm GPU Driver With Linux 6.17 - Especially For Snapdragon X  Phoronix

Daisy Chain Of Hacks Lets New Arm Board Run Doom  Hackaday

4 reasons I use NixOS in WSL instead of Ubuntu or Fedora  XDA

6 reasons why I use NixOS over any other Linux distro  XDA

3 lessons I learned while using Linux as a Windows fanboy  MSN

I (almost) fixed this mini PC... by installing Linux  XDA

Why My Kids' First PC Will Run Linux  How-To Geek

Hear me out – a GUI distribution isn’t all that bad for an entry-level home server  XDA

DXVK 2.7 released today as a major feature update for this translation layer for enabling Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 based games and applications to run atop the Vulkan API. DXVK is a critical piece of Valve's Steam Play (Proton) software stack for enabling Windows games on Linux...

DXVK 2.7 Released With Many Improvements & Better Support On Newer Intel GPUs  Phoronix

Hidden flaw in Linux (Ubuntu and Fedora) laptops allows full system compromise  Notebookcheck

SUSE's Agama Installer Switches From X.Org To Wayland For Installation GUI  Phoronix

SUSE developers working on their new operating system installer "Agama" have been making steady progress and on Friday debuted Agama 16. With Agama 16 they have moved from X.Org to Wayland for powering their installer UI along with a number of other changes...

It shouldn't be particularly surprising as Fedora Linux has always been known for shipping with a leading-edge compiler toolchain, but the formalities have now been submitted for Fedora 43 to ship with the latest GNU and LLVM toolchain components...